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Nigger Heaven is a novel written by Carl Van Vechten, and published in October 1926. The book is set during the Harlem Renaissance in the United States in the 1920s. The book and its title have been controversial since its publication.
A controversial but appealing, amusing, and vivacious celebration of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s. No other contemporary novel received the volume and intensity of criticism and curiosity that greeted Nigger Heaven upon its publication in 1926.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929. The longest-living author of this work died in 1964, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 59 years or less.
Van Vechten’s best-selling “Nigger Heaven” helped make Harlem hot, even as its title guaranteed a stormy reception.
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. [1] He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven.
Carl Van Vechten's book 'Nigger Heaven' is a controversial novel that delves into the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The story follows the lives of African Americans in...
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White. by Emily Bernard. reviewed by Cameron McWhirter. Carl Van Vechten is best-known today not for who he knew or what he wrote but for the title of his most famous novel: Nigger Heaven.
